Get recommendation

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Read the properties and relationships of a recommendation object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	DirectoryRecommendations.Read.All	DirectoryRecommendations.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	DirectoryRecommendations.Read.All	DirectoryRecommendations.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

• Reports Reader
• Security Reader
• Global Reader
• Security Operator
• Application Administrator
• Security Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator

HTTP request

GET /directory/recommendations/{recommendationId}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a recommendation object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directory/recommendations/0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.Recommendations["{recommendation-id}"].GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc-beta directory recommendations get --recommendation-id {recommendation-id}

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
recommendations, err := graphClient.Directory().Recommendations().ByRecommendationId("recommendation-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Recommendation result = graphClient.directory().recommendations().byRecommendationId("{recommendation-id}").get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let recommendation = await client.api('/directory/recommendations/0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->recommendations()->byRecommendationId('recommendation-id')->get()->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Identity.DirectoryManagement

Get-MgBetaDirectoryRecommendation -RecommendationId $recommendationId

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.directory.recommendations.by_recommendation_id('recommendation-id').get()

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#directory/recommendations/$entity",
  "id": "0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA",
  "recommendationType": "turnOffPerUserMFA",
  "createdDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
  "impactStartDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
  "postponeUntilDateTime": null,
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-01-10T22:57:10.2509132Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": "d5a3853c-8e04-42b6-a530-bf159e99174a",
  "currentScore": 0.0,
  "maxScore": 5.0,
  "displayName": "Convert from per-user MFA to Conditional Access MFA",
  "featureAreas": [
    "conditionalAccess"
  ],
  "insights": "13 users are currently configured for per-user Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)...",
  "benefits": "Improve user productivity and minimize sign-in time with fewer MFA prompts...",
  "category": "identityBestPractice",
  "status": "active",
  "priority": "medium",
  "releaseType": "preview",
  "impactType": "users",
  "remediationImpact": "",
  "actionSteps": [
    {
      "stepNumber": 1,
      "text": "1. To get started, confirm that there is an existing CA policy with an MFA requirement...",
      "actionUrl": {
        "displayName": "Click here to view your CA policies",
        "url": "https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/PoliciesTemplateBlade"
      }
    },
    {
      "stepNumber": 2,
      "text": "2. To require MFA via a CA policy, follow the steps in this tutorial.",
      "actionUrl": {
          "displayName": "Secure user sign-in events with Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication",
          "url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/tutorial-enable-azure-mfa?toc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/toc.json&bc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/breadcrumb/toc.json"
      }
    },
    {
      "stepNumber": 3,
      "text": "3. Ensure that the per-user MFA configuration is turned off",
      "actionUrl": {
          "displayName": "Navigate to MFA settings.",
          "url": "https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/UserManagement/MfaSettings.aspx"
      }
    }
  ]
}